歌詞中"When you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me out"と歌った直後に"in"と入れているのは暴力的革命に対する彼の心の迷い。ボーカルの録音には相当難儀したようで、なかなか気に入ったテイクが録れないことに嫌気が差したジョンは最後にはとうとうスタジオの床に寝転がって歌った。

John Lennon (1980)Completely me. We recorded the song twice. The Beatles were getting real tense with each other. I did the slow version (Revolution 1) and I wanted to put it out as a single: as a statement of the Beatles’ position on Vietnam and the Beatles’ position on revolution. The first take of 'Revolution’ …well, George and Paul were resentful and said it wasn’t fast enough. Now, if you go into the details of what a hit record is and isn’t, maybe. But the Beatles could have afforded to put out a slow, understandable version of 'Revolution’ as a single, whether it was a gold record or a wooden record.